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Recommended reading: Authentication in Distributed Systems




You can find an abstract for
"Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice" at
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-083.html
together with a pointer to the postscript for the complete paper...

        Cheers,
        Ron Rivest
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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:15:22 -0800
To: rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Ron Rivest)
From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
Subject: Re: BAN logic

Do you know if either paper is available for ftp or on the web ?

Thanks

John

At 08:48 PM 2/29/96 EST, you wrote:
>
>I just want to second Joe Tardo's recommendation of the Burrows, Abadi,
>Needham paper ("A logic of authentication", ACM TOCS, Feb. 1990).  
>
>Another closely related paper:
>
>@article{LampsonAbBuWo92,
>author =       {Butler Lampson and Mart\'in Abadi and Michael Burrows
>               and and Edward Wobber},
>title =        {Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice},
>journal =      {TOCS},
>month =        Nov,
>year =         1992,
>volume =       10,
>number =       4,
>pages =        {265-310}
>}
>
>is also excellent and well worth reading.  I'd consider theese papers
>as ``must'' background readings for this group...
>
>       Cheers,
>       Ron Rivest
>
>
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